Chapter 4 04.

A R I A N A

I mustered up the remaking sanity left in me packing my stuffs in silence.

My hands moved on their own, shoving clothes into a suitcase, grabbing the few things that were truly mine.

Photos.

Jewelry.

The little trinkets Angelo had given me over the years things that now felt like lies.

I didn't cry.

I had cried too much that there were no tear left to cry.

The only thing that kept me going was the tiny life inside me.

My baby, the one good thing left in this mess.

I zipped up the last bag and took one final look around the bedroom

just hours ago, I had been so happy, all the plans I had made for our anniversary, telling Angelo he was going to be a father.

All that is shattered now.

I grabbed my box of things and walked out, not looking back.

I was halfway down the stairs when she appeared.

Bella.

Fucking cheat!

The woman who had laughed with me, cried with me, stood by me at my wedding.

The woman who had just been in bed with my husband.

She leaned against the railing, arms crossed, a smirk on her perfect face.

"Leaving so soon?" she purred.

I didn't stop walking.

She stepped in front of me, blocking my path. "Oh, come on, Ariana. Don't be like that."

I clenched my jaw. "Move."

She laughed a cold, mean sound. "Or what? You'll cry some more?"

I tightened my grip on the box. "You're disgusting! You should be ashamed of yourself"

Bella rolled her eyes. "Please, you never deserved him anyway."

My chest burned. "I didn't deserve him? You're the one who slept with your best friend's husband! I trusted you Bella, if anyone could do this to me, it shouldn't be you"

She shrugged, like it was nothing. "Angelo was never really yours."

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

Bella's smirk widened. "I've had my eyes on him since college long before you ever did."

I froze.

What? What was she even talking about?

She tilted her head, enjoying my shock. "Oh don't act oblivious Aria we both know that I liked him first. But he chose you." Her voice dripped with venom. "So I waited and when the time was right... I took him back."

My stomach twisted. "You... you planned this?"

She laughed. "Of course I did you really think I was your friend all these years? I was just waiting for my chance, if I want something Ariana I make sure I get it, absolutely no one deserves Angelo but me, he's mine and he has always been mine"

I felt like I'd been punched.

All the late-night talks, the secrets we shared, the times she pretended to care.

It was all a lie.

"You're a monster," I whispered.

Bella's eyes gleamed. "And you're a fool. Did you really think he loved you? He only stayed because he felt sorryfor you. You're nothing Ariana!"

My hands shook. "That's not true."

"Oh, it is." She stepped closer, her voice dropping to a cruel whisper. "And you know what else? I made sure you never got pregnant. Because if you had, he might have stayed."

The world stopped.

My breath caught in my throat.

What did she just say?

I stared at her, my heart pounding. "What... what did you do?"

Bella smirked. "Birth control pills in your coffee. Every morning for the past year."

My knees almost gave out.

She had been drugging me.

She had been stealing my chance at a family.

And now

Now that I was pregnant

She had taken Angelo from me anyway.

I felt sick.

"You bitch," I choked out.

Bella just laughed. "Too late now, isn't it? He's

mine and there's nothing you can do about it. We both know you've been leaching off of him to pay your debts. You're a slut Ariana a fucking cheap one that aims for high class man to get money to live your fake lifestyle"

"How dare you!" I yelled.

She shrugs, "He doesn't want you anymore he never did, he just didn't realize that and now that I made him realize his mistake, it's safe to say he's done with you." She spat

I wanted to scream.

I wanted to hit her.

I wanted to destroy her.

But instead I decided not to, I didn't want to give her the reaction she wanted my heart had already been shattered by the man I thought loved me, Bella's pain was nothing compared to Angelos.

I let out a breath turning and walking away,

She was right, there was nothing I could do.

Angelo had chosen her.

And I

I was left with nothing but a broken heart

And a baby he would never know about.

"Hey! Where do you think you're going?" She grabbed my hair.

I yelped, "Let go of me"

"Okay.."

And she did pushing me instead making me stumble and toil down.

I felt excruciating pain in my stomach as I hit the ground, I let out a scream in pain.

"No! My baby" I cried watching as blood drizzled down legs the pain growing.

"Please... help me, please... I can't lose my baby" I stuttered as I sobbed watching Bella march down to were I laid lifless.

"Die you bitch! If you think I'd let you have Angelo's baby then you're more dense than I thought you were." She hissed. "You can't use the baby to get Angelo back or his property and I've made sure of that... there's no way you can save the baby... rot in hell you fucking slut!" She mocked before walking away.

I watched as her walk away, her figure retiring before everything went blank.